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• A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

  Coco Chanel

  Long, Style, Mind

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• A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Dark, Past

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.45, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Giving Up, Lying, Two

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• Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

  Walter Bagehot

  Science, Thinking, Ice

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

  Dee Bradley Baker

  Optimistic, Kids, Evil

  "5 Force-Full Questions: Dee Bradley Baker at Star Wars Celebration VI". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

  Neil Gaiman

  Evil, Action, Affection

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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• The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

  Herbert Croly

  Political, Literature, Phases

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Justice, Unjust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.70, Library of America

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• He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Secret

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2209, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Years, Ideas

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• (The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

  Alexander Fleming

  Discovery, Problem, Academic

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• Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them.

  Elvis Presley

  Teenager, Adolescence

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• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Men, Order

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series of brilliant actions and decisions that may in fact have been lucky or inadvertent, whereas failures illuminate paths and pitfalls to be avoided.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Decision, Pitfalls, Lucky

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• To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Perception, Negative, Consciousness

  Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

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• The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Reason, Casts

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

  Clive James

  Habit

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Common, Novel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

  Rupert Holmes

  Years, Aggravation, Careers

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